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Say Goodbye to 2015 and Hello to 2016!

December 30, 2015 – 1:43 pm

We are counting down the final hours of 2015 and preparing for a bright new 2016! It will be interesting to see what changes are in store for grant applicants and recipients next year. Maybe next year won’t be quite…

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OMB, COFAR Issue Technical Corrections, New FAQ

September 15, 2015 – 7:37 am

It didn’t have much fanfare and you may have missed it, but the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Council on Financial Assistance Reform (COFAR) made some big news last week. Maybe not quite as big as the…

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OMB Releases 2015 Compliance Supplement, Despite Title Complexities

July 15, 2015 – 7:30 am

As the line from the Shakespeare novel Romeo and Juliet goes, “What’s in a name?” We’ve been asking ourselves that question as well when reviewing the 2015 Office of Management and Budget Compliance Supplement. Or is it still the 2015…

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COFAR Launches Tool for Stakeholder Feedback on Uniform Guidance

February 24, 2015 – 3:29 pm

Stakeholder feedback is always a good thing, especially when it comes to initiatives taken by the federal government. As it seeks to ensure that the uniform grant guidance performs as intended — by reducing administrative burden while eliminating fraud, waste…

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NIH Issues Interim General Grant Conditions

February 17, 2015 – 4:31 pm

Now that the Office of Management and Budget’s uniform grant guidance is in place and federal agencies have adopted it into their regulations, the folks at these agencies can’t just sit back and declare their work finished. Now comes a…

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Confusion Abounds Related to Unique Entity Identifier

January 16, 2015 – 10:38 am

One of the key technical corrections that the Office of Management and Budget and the Council on Financial Assistance Reform made in the revised uniform guidance was to remove references to the Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal Numbering System…

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OMB Makes Technical Corrections to Uniform Guidance

January 6, 2015 – 3:38 pm

Oops. Whoops. My mistake. Typo. Do-over. Got an eraser? Where’s the White-Out?

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Saying Goodbye to 2014 and Hello to 2015

December 31, 2014 – 2:09 pm

So, did anything happen concerning grants this past year or was it just the same ‘ol, same ‘ol? Oh, of course, right, there was this trifling little thing called the uniform grant guidance. I think that rings a bell.

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COFAR Webinar Discusses How Much Internal Control Is Enough

October 7, 2014 – 9:53 am

Call it the “pillow test.” Or perhaps the “snooze factor.” These seemed to be good terms to use for determining the level of internal control that a recipient needs under the uniform grant guidance after hearing from a couple of…

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Sneak Preview: Guidance Sets Administrative Costs Provision

October 3, 2014 – 9:02 am

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The Office of Management and Budget’s uniform grant guidance clarifies how nonfederal entities should treat the salaries of administrative and clerical staff when charging these costs to…

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